my classes...

so i finally got to sign up for classes. i hate having to sign up last. =( but anyways, my classes for next quarter is...

monday/wednesday/friday:

english 104 - 11:45 am-12:50 pm

tuesday/thursday:

history 202 - 10:00 am-11:50 am

intro to microcomputing 101 - 1:00 pm-2:50 pm

intro to oceanography 120 - 6:00 pm-7:50 pm

already 5 years...

i cant believe that its ben 5 years. feb 20th 2004 was the day my best friend or my "sister" passed away. i could just remember when she was only going through everything. she was already suffering from it a year before she passed. i remember always seeing her and just hanging out either at their house or even having to go to the hospital to see her. she was such a good person that i wish she was still here to where i can experience everything with her, just like when we were little because we were the same age. i miss everything about her that i still think about it to this day. as the time came, i knew things probably wouldnt get any better and all i wished for at the time was for her to still be here for my 14 birthday. but i never got that wish...i actually could still remember everything about the day she passed. i was only in the 8th grade and after school at the time, i was going to the volleyball club at school. but then, i saw my mom and she told me that we had to go. i had no idea why i had to leave, and it was a friday. she then picked me and my brother up from school and told us that we had to pick up her twin sister (also like a sister to, still to this day) and to go to the hospital. at that moment, i knew that something wasnt good. we then go to the hospital and just hung out there for awhile. then when we knew it, it was time for us to leave. their parents told us that her sister would have to stay with us. so we then carried on with the rest of the evening. then it was about 10 something at night when their parents came to our house to pick up her sister to go back home. at that moment, i felt a tension in the room from when her parents came from the hospital. they said that beverly had just passed. i then cried my eyes out and i couldnt stop. at that moment, i felt like my heart just stopped. i ended up crying myself to sleep. 

i will never forget that day. i bet you are looking down on me everyday wishing you were here with me. i wish the same too. i miss you so much beverly pun! you were like the sister i never had and i thank you for all the years you were here. and now...i still cant believe that it already has been 5 years. 

RIP Beverly Pun 

February 20th 2004

saturday night...

so saturday was a fun night that i havent had that much fun in a long time. so i stayed home to eat dinner with my brother cuz my parents had some school fundraiser to go to. then kim yee came by to pick me up and met carina in millbrae at a frozen yogurt place called nubis. its just like all the other frozen yogurt places out there now. lol we then went to walgreens cuz kim wanted to get something. then there was a safeway nearby and kim needed to get something. it was so much fun watching kim walk the whole night. she's so sore from working out for volleyball that we kinda tortured her the whole night. when we were are safeway, she would drop things and instead of helping her, we made her get it and it was just fun to watch. we then decided that we should bake something. so we bought a cake mix to bake. we went make to my house and baked. it was a fun night of baking and taking pictures on my photobooth on my laptop. here are some pictures...to check out more, gotta go to my facebook page. 

weekend back home in the bay!!

it was so cool to be able to go home this weekend, since we had a 3 day weekend for presidents day. it felt good to be in a city again...SAN FRANCISCO. but i left on thursday at about 5 and landed in the bay at around 6:30 pm. my dad then came to pick me up at the oakland airport and drove home. my mom had a home-cooked meal ready and i was for sure ready to eat a home-cooked meal again. it was so good. =D 

then on friday, i went and had lunch with my grandparents at a dim sum place. oh did it feel good to eat good food than go to the commons. lol well, anyways, my dad then came to pick me up and we drove around so i can practice driving. and yes...i dont have my licenses, the transportation is just really easy around the city. but im planning on getting my licenses during the summer. YAY!! so after driving around for awhile, we had to go pick up my brother from his school cuz he was meeting one of his elementary/middle school friend at their old elementary/middle school. when we got there, i realized that i havent been there in a long time since my brother left. i then saw a lot of my old teachers when i was in middle school. it was nice to catch up. then we went to king pool which was in the bayview district to watch the all-city swim meet. i wanted to see how my high school swim team was doing since i was on the team for my last 2 years in high school. stayed there for awhile just watching the swim meets...oh how i miss swimming so much. then we went to meet my mom at her work (preschool) to meet up with her to have dinner. then we had to pick up my brother from a friday night club program (cameron house, a youth based organization that we've been part of for a long time). i then saw a lot of people that i havent seen in a really long time either. it was nice to be around those people again. 

i'll leave another post about my saturday...since it'll probably be a much longer post with pictures too!!! 

see ya guys later. =)

-Alyssa Jow

first blog ever...

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